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70 Facts about Gloucestershire…(continued from last month)

18. Gloucester’s Scriptorium is the oldest and best-preserved medieval library in Britain.
19. Cirencester’s oval Roman amphitheatre was known as the Bull Ring 2,000 years ago,
and used for brutal gladiator battles.
20. The biggest ice cream factory in the UK is the
Walls factory in Gloucester.
21. The US national anthem is set to a tune written
by Gloucester-born John Stafford-Smith, a
composer buried in Gloucester Cathedral.
22. The mineral spring of Cheltenham that makes it a spa town was first discovered by
pigeons. People noticed flocks gathering in a field that turned out to be a spring,
and pigeons now appear on the town’s crest as a mark of gratitude.
23. Gloucester Cathedral’s Crecy Window is the biggest stained-glass window in the UK.
24. The last battle of the English Civil War was fought at Stow-on-the-Wold in 1646,
ending with a Royalist surrender in the market place.

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